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The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Crane Growing.

An Hungarian, who is starting vine
ward at Chester, Conn, says that the
Americans make the ground too rich for
this fruit, and in the selection of his
virfevard has taken land with soil origl-
nally "too poor to grow white beans. :"
This enterprise will be watched with
some interest and the conclusion may be
found to be correct. We remember VS.
ting a vineyard of wonderful produc-
tiveness, of T. B. Wakeman, at Green
Farms in the same State, and 1t was sit
uated upon a side hill of very light shady
soil. but it was feast to look upon the
enormous clusters of fine fruit. The
thin soil may have been a partial secret
70 the success. - Geymantoeon Telegraph.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01
The Colt and the Pears.

A gentleman who keeps a two-year-old
colt In a lot where there is fruit has been
particular of late TO have all the fruit that
fell during the night gathered before the
colt was turned out III the morning.
thinking the fellow would get all that
his system required If he ate what feb
during the day. Yesterday afternoon
one of the family heard pear tree rattle,
and, slipping TO the window 10 see If the
tree was being molestcd, she saw the colt
rubbing against it. Directly pair was
started and the colt at once made for 1t.
Then he repeated the rubbing operation
till another fell. which he secured and ate,
He had been seen rubbing against the
tree before, but his movements were NOT
watched. But his owner has no doubt
that he has secured his share OF the fruit,
and didn't take up windfalls either
Hartford C0urdHt.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01
A Novel Musical Device.

The latest musical device is a con-
Meeting wheel and belt for hitching one
of the cheap reed organs that play tunes
bv means of punctured sheets of paper
to the fly wheel of sewing machine, SO
that poor seamstresses who used to have
no music but the thump, thump Of the
pedal can now make shirts and trousers
to the melody of Hold the Fort" The
old juvenile poem must now be altered
to She shall have music whenever she
sews-lNeao York Sun.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01

Some OF the farmers in New Jersey
think that tomato skins make an excel
lent fertilizer for wheat, and several OF
them claim to have used it for that grain
for several years with marked success.
After taking ID to 20 tons of tomatoes
from the acre the vines are turned un-
der and great crops of wheat are not I'M
frequently gathered the following July
from tomato field of the past year.
The small fruits ri pen in hot weather,
when drying them by old-fashioned
methods is very difficult. The evapo-
rator, says the CuItiUdtOr, does its best
work in these, and its use has created
popular demand for the evapcrated pro-
duct which as yet has never been fully
supplied. The black and red raspberries
are especially valuable, and the demand
for evaporation will long keep the price
during the picking season at a paying
rate.
In caring for roses it is not so much
protection from the cold as from sudden
changes that is desirable, as all roses will
stand fall of temperature some degrees
below the freezing point if not IN grow
ing condition Wait until the cold has
killed the foliage on the rose bushes and
checked the growth, and then cut away
the whitening buds and tender shoots,
which, being full of soft wood and sap,
tend to produce decay during warm win
tiers or carly spring.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01
Farm and Garden Notes.

AS a protection for rose bushes all sea-
weeds are good fertilizers.
Apple and peach trees should be
planted annually, to keep up good sup
ply of fruit.
The best time to sort potatoes is when
picking them up, which should be done
very soon after digging.
Don't destroy the humble bees. They
are the agents by which the clover pollen
is carried from one blossom to another.
A COW in milk should never be driven
faster than a moderate walk. With q
full udder it hurts a cow to trot or run.
1t is said that eggs from hens kept
without ROSTERS, will keep at least twice
as long as those from hens running with
ROSTERS.
Cows at pasture after the first severe
frost want something more than the
damaged grass Grain will come in play
as we'll as in midwinter.
Gives the COWS only pure, clean water
to drink, and fence them away from stag
nant pools if you do not wish to be
bothered with bitter milk.
In England very fine flavor is i'm
parted to the flesh of fattening turkeys
by feeding them, in confinement, with
cooked food in which chopped sweet
herbs, like parsley, have been mixed.
By Ike eping Canada thistles cut down
close to the ground they can be de-
stroyed, but it will require two or three
years to become free of the pests. Not a
single plant should be allowed to grow,
Those who pack eggs in salt must re-
member that it is necessary to pack the
eggs as soon after they are laid as posi-
BILE. They should be put into the salt as
soon after they come from the nest as
possible.
Every farmers wife knows that apple
woHdsashes make very strong I've: 1hls
is aIAaAe OF most fruit trees, and espe-
cially e THAT have been very produc-
tive. m zen fruit needs potash to
enable if = and the roots take up
sap filed is mineral wherever 1t
is ayaiIob,o be of this never leaves
the tree b,'t in the yearly layer
Of wood iema
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01
Grating Fruits.

Next to the planting of new trees dur
ING the coming spring, preparation
should be made for grating the natural
apple trees and other bearers of worthless
fruit to be found on almost every farm.
Some varieties of fruit, however, should
be budded, rather than grated, and
give the following schedule of modes of
propagation adapted to different trees
and fruit bearing shrubs:
Apple and pear, budding and graft
ing.
Cherry, mostly by budding, but sue
ceeds well by grating If done very
early.
Peach and nectarine, by budding only,
at the North; often succeeds by grating
at the South.
Plum, by grating, and also by bud
ding if the stocks are thrifty.
Apricot, mostly by budding, some
times by grating.
Almond, by budding and sometimes
by grating.
Chestnut, by early grating.
Walnut, by early grating and by an
nual budding.
Ounce, by cutting and grating.
Filbert, by suckers and layers. The
finer sorts may be grated on the more
common, which reduces the size of the
bush and makes them more prolific.
Grape, by layers and cuttings, and, in
rare instances, grating is advantageous
Iv employed for new or rare sorts on old
or wild stocks, producing rapid growth
and early bearing.
Raspberry and blackberry, by suckers,
cuttings of roots and layers.
Gooseberry and currant, by cuttings
and sometimes by layers.
To insure good grating one must
have sharp tools and good wax. The
grating wax purchased is not Away a
good article, and it is preferable to make
it, by heating and mixing equal parts Of
rosin, tallow and yellow beeswaX. A
coat of this wax, about one-twentieth Of
an inch thick, spread over muslin, calico
or tough and flexible paper, makes an
excellent plaster for outdoor grating {;
or. if spread half an inch on paper, is
well adapted to root grating. In either
case the strips should be narrow, that they
may be easily wrapped around the graft
till it is well covered, when the rest may
be torn off In making the plasters it is
essential that the ingredients Of the wax
should be thoroughly stirred together
before it is spread. A kind Of paper,
soft, thin and tough, is now much used by
dry goods shopkeepers for wrapping,
and may be purchased cheaply by the
ream. For outdoor grating, in cool
weather, a lantern or chatting dish is
required to soften the plasters. A
cheaper kind of wax can be made of four
parts of tallow, one part of yellow bees
wax, but it sticks to ones fingers and
cannot be rapidly used Culticat0r.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01
The "MelloM Soffness.r

He was q dudish poet, and he often cut q
swell,
And he thought his conversation charmed
each gay and giddy belle:
So he said TO one, one autumn, when the
leaves were flying round,
Don't you see a mellow SoftneSs spreading
over all the groundF'
But the best laid schemes Of mice and men
will often gang sglee,n
He tripped his foot upon a stone, then TO the
earth fell he.
She said: L quite agree with you your say
ing Is most sound.
So / see mellow SoftneSs spreading over sill
the ground
-GooddIrS Sun.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01

An Otsego Mich. man was saved from
a horrible death by a ROSTERS crow re-
Gently. He was lost in the woods and
about being done for, when the cock
crew, showing him the way back to
civilization.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01

OF the seventeen Presidents of the
United States eleven were graduates; of
twenty Vice-Presidents, ten; of twenty
nine Secretaries of State, nineteen; of
torty-one Associate Justices of the United
States Supreme Court, thirty.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-01

In Germany the hid. of the catfish
8 tanned to form tough and supple
Gather.
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-12-29
POETR ".
CARRIERS ADDRESS.

1t was only morsel of thought-so vague
that had to smile,
And it softly crept in my brain last night
and pleaded to stay awhile;
And because II was immature, weak and
helpless thing
| gave ii Samaritan greeting, and let it about
me cling.
And feeling the warmth of welcome it pres
emily strr'd to life
And gathering strength each moment Ia
strength with poesy rifel
Ii garnished my brain. and with crayon
dipp'd in the aiterglow
1t limn'd thereon the likeness of something
| seemed to know.
Bit by bit on the canvass the picture slowly
dawnd
With a softness of portrayal no artist soul
had scorned-
And as, in drowsy mood | gaz'd-unthink-
ing. unaware
The fragments of dear, familiar scene
were cust'ring there.
Patches of local token, glimpse Of Shen-
andosh's crest
And, clad in its robe of heather, the Valley
we love the best
Unrol'd its leagues Of roadside, Of field and
stubble grey
With ribbons of steel in sure, true lines
stretching yon and away.
The unseen painter deity wrought
The moments swiftly sped,
At every stroke Prosaic Real and Fancy
Free were wed.
II caught the tints of wood and lane, Of
mountain.side and stream
Athwart whose ripping current there fell q
silver CLEAN
OF precious moonlight while the stars, in
rapture STOPPING down
To kiss the dark blue waters ere the purple
night had flown,
Were prisond in their quiet depths and
twinkling meath the waves
They seem'd to light an easy path to poets
lonely graves.
Just then, beneath the lustre Of mellow am
Der rays,
The teeming canvass culver witha Thought
of Xmas days:
| saw fair Charle-town's winding paths
where winds Of winter roam
Past curtain'd easements glowing dim with
cheerful lights of home.
The dear old village church was there, It's
chancel ROBBED in green,
With holly berries-crimson dots-aglisten
all between.
The picture slowly faded l looked
my last adieux-
Mine eyes were $ dly gazing on some dear
diss0lving views.
The drifting panorama left a blur that
depend wide
And sufus'd the vacant canvass with q
dainty purple tide,
And cross the royal tinted disc, in flashing
lines of gold,
| read the farewell message that quivered
warm and bold
a Happy New Year to you all-at each
bright fire>ide
May health, content and competence the
season thro' aaide."
1t Il sh d for but a moment in tremu-
lous fashion there
The gold and violet VANISHED and nodded
in my chair.
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II Is q shame.

The Sqt J3uau proudly proPhesies
correct, in the following Paragraph:
"As Tie Dtmocmuc caucus 0i = sem
ator- has decided TO support Fauikntrs
.aim To Tine seat rom Nc,t Virginia, b. is
apparent that Luca. ha, ID very sIm chance,
ii any tor writing L = scbalor alter Isis
name"
Possibly, also, Judge Faulkner may never
yet any further along lnal having lhe puv-
el,ec oil the llOOr oi tnr Senate. BE- llis ~
II NAV. the cou Be of the Democratic mem
oer- Is -ad commentary 0n partisan poll.
nc. and leaning. one ol Two conclusions
must be- arrived no in c0n..d rHg lhe cOur-e
"a The Democratic caucus IL, ignorance is
UNPARALLELED Dr IT, devotion t0 party gross
,v strong. Not lhr slightest attention Was
paid To iie constitutional qucsis0n involved
40 the West Virginia case. Judge tauik-
ner produced a certificate. thc ike oi which
wa- never seen 300 thr ocnatr chamber oi tie
United S.ales li- gc.ua. 81 Doc l. not ei-
tablIshed by amy precedent Iis case IL
wolves relations between ODE constitution OF
the Uni ed states au ihat Oi Stale. never
before brought out All fhs novel facts
are simply trlmp.ed under foot, 1y men who
should be a- iairand impartial as supreme
court. A. e. why justice j.. outraged can
only he -urmised. c -urmis,ng eau be by
300 means complimentary 90 about half The
membership OF the Senate Richie Go1efie
lhP.l
TIE following olc.sircpouofi hc United
States scnae proceedings OF the 18Th in-
siant is complete answer 20 the foregoing.
"Mr lloar. from ODE committee on prigi-
lege, aud elections, presented aTepod DO thc
Nest Virginia case. lie sald l,at tne re-
bort w.s ullninOIs. The questions raised
were yery SIMPLE Ones and easily c0nipre-
hended OHc oi them lad been long ago
determined DY fae Senate. and hc supposed
that ail Senators bad bad occasion 90 ref GO
on thettler In onlcr tnIt tie Senator en-
tilted 90 the -eat might enter at once upDn
bis duiir-, hc % ped there would b., go Ob-
jcciIon 70 having tnc report dspo-ed oi az
precat.
"TAe report was read % length. II con.
clud+. with twO rfso.uiio0s-ihc one de-
clanug that Daniel b Lncas & uO, entitled
% tie -eat, and tie ollie. declaring thai
Chas. J Faulkner has been duly elected
Senator from the State Of West Virginia
for tire term 81 six years. commencing 4-h
March, 1851, aud Is entitled % a seat 90 thc
Senate as such Senator The resolution.
we're agreed %, rira toce, and the oath o
ohc was fhTenp0n administered % Mr.
Faulkner
"Mr. Hoar then moved that Mr Fauikne
r be a-spned % ihe commiite on claims
District Oh Columbia, mines and mining
and pensions. Agreed to-"
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A TONGUE IN KNOT

contracted malaria in the swamps III
isiana while working for the telegraph compa,
nv. and used every kind of medicine could
hear of without relief at last succeeded IN
breaking the fever, but il cost me over SlOO.OO,
and then my system was Frustrated and satu-
rated with malarial poison and | became al
most helpless. finally came here. my mouth
so filled with sores that | could scarcely eat,
and nv tongue raw and filled with little knots.
Various remedies were reSorted 10 without ei
feet. bought two bottles of b. B. B. and 1t
has cured and strengthened me. All sores OF
my mouth are healed and my tongue entirely
clear OF knots and soreness. and feel like a
new man. \. T. BRITT0N.
Jackson. Tenn. April %. 1856.
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